The film clip shows Senders driving down a busy highway "blind", as he wears the bespoke helmet used in his experiments. For
his research, participants were subjected to a similar set-up on a rented
racetrack, a closed stretch of highway and later on a public road during morning rush hour. "There were no ethical approval boards at that time," explains
Senders.

The experiments aimed to determine the relationship between
the type of road, the amount of time spent looking at the road, the interval
between observations and driving speed. Quite predictably, the researchers
found that drivers maintained a slower speed when their view was frequently
blocked and when driving on a complicated road, regardless of how often they
looked at it.

The idea for the research came to Senders after he had drivien
through a rainstorm. "I found that I could drive comfortably with an
interrupted view of the road at a speed of 32 miles per hour [51 kilometres per hour]," he says.

This is a really intresting experiment, in that it shows just how little we actually know about how the brain handles information from the enviroment, and responds accordingly, so that behaviour can be codified and used to implement more responsive computers, robots, and other such intelligence embedded machines.

I wonder what it will take for a computer to be able to handle an enviroment, if its first rule is, everything you see is a lie, its second rule, everything is out to get you, and the third rule is, dont take my word for it.